OU will pay more for the upcoming Campus Activities Council Homecoming Bash concert than the previous two CAC-sponsored concerts combined, according to the contract for the concert.
The university will pay $150,000 to bring in Flo Rida, Mike Posner, Tinashe, Jojo and Kent Jones to perform at the Lloyd Noble Center Oct. 26. The payment is more than what OU gave to both rapper YG in September 2015 and Grammy-winning rocker Jack White in February 2015.
OU spent $40,000 to bring YG to the McCasland Field House and $80,000 to bring Jack White to the field house. The money to pay for the Homecoming Bash concert and previous CAC-sponsored concerts comes from a portion of the organization's budget, student activity fees and money that CAC has saved from previous years, said Quy Nguyen, senior associate director of Student Life at OU.
Nguyen said he thinks the $150,000 price point is a sweet deal. In May 2014, Degy Entertainment released a list showing the range of how much it would cost to bring the different artists it represents for a show. Flo Rida was listed at $100,000 to $150,000 alone. Mike Posner was listed at $40,000 to $50,000.
CAC will also earn 100 percent of the event's ticket sales, according to the contract. The tickets are $18 for OU students and $35 for non-OU students.
Furthermore, the $150,000 payment covers the services the concert's promoter will provide. These services include security, transportation for the artists, and catering for the stage crew, volunteers and artists, according to the contract.
Aimee Schnebeck, chair of CAC at OU, said she is excited not only for the concert but all of homecoming week.
"This is a great event," she said. "It's something that will bring hopefully a lot of people together, seeing as that's what our campus weighed in on as what they wanted to see."
Schnebeck said the artists for the homecoming concert were chosen based on a survey on OrgSync. Participants picked what genres of music they were interested in, and the top two genres were Top 40 and hip hop, she said.
Based on those results, Schnebeck said CAC looked for artists who fit the survey's results and the organization's budget, sent out bids to different artists, and ended up with its artist list from there.
The concert is also the first-ever Homecoming event with no competitive facet.
Flo Rida, Mike Posner, Tinashe, Jojo and Kent Jones will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Lloyd Noble Center. Tickets may be purchased at www.stubwire.com.
